David Poyner

Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

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Israel censors speech in Australia FMD

White House Investigates Whether to Chop Space Shuttle Discovery Into Pieces "It's like taking the Washington Monument, sawing it into pieces, and moving it somewhere."

Spending enough money to fund a cancelled a science mission to chainsaw Discovery into pieces to ship to Houston would be an obscenity www.yahoo.com/news/article...

For the Smallest Men in the World And a celebration of them.

"That was the whole point of the event. It had nothing to do with improving our national security and military readiness. It was a role-play session for undeserving straight, white guys who could never hack it and resent those who could."

Sure. Left wing terrorism is at an all time high, going from 3% of domestic terror fatalities to 4%. Right wing terrorism on the other hand has dipped to an all time low of 95%

So technically, yeah.

A larger parliament makes sense, but that’s not why Albanese wants one The argument for increasing the size of the parliament is a respectable one. But Labor’s motivation for doing so would be a cold-blooded calculation of political advantage.

George Brandis' attack on increasing the number of MPs because it benefits Labor in the cities misses one key point. At any time, Libs could decide to stop being racist, start being a normal party, and win the cities again. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

When you call out racism these days, they call that “hate speech,” but when someone promotes racism, they call that “free speech.” It’s backwards

4 panel comic Panel 1: ICE “Agent” (thug) punches protester hard in the face. Agent: STOP Panel 2: ICE Agent viciously snaps protester’s arm Agent: BEING Panel 3: ICE Agent strangles protester Agent: POLITICALLY Panel 4: ICE Agent stamps on protester’s head Agent: VIOLENT

Donald Trump Is Blaming US Budget Crisis On Transgender People - Star Observer US President Donald Trump has gone on a lengthy rant on social media, blaming the transgender community for budget issues in the US

Wow to think the trans community is so powerful to influence the world's largest economy, so much so that the great dictator can't control the price rises that he created. 😆😆😆

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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Disability modelling agency boss pocketing money she could use to pay her models

This NDIS registered provider (the govt says that registration will ‘keep us safe’) wants to be famous.

Well, let’s meet Monique, who underpays and exploits disabled people through her NDIS registered modelling agency, Diversity Models.

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Make her famous.

Australia's FOI system is broken, but proposed reforms miss the mark This proposed bill risks doubling down on the very problems it should be fixing.

The Govt should be introducing legislation to provide more transparency, not less.

Their proposed changes to FOI are deeply troubling, though not surprising given in the last parliament they were the 2nd most secretive in 30 years.

That needs to change.
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From Charlie Kirk to Gaza, disagreement is treason The escalating crackdown on dissenting thought and opinion is taking Australia down a dark road

On disagreement
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Autism does not need to be cured! It's the rest of society that needs to be more accommodating!! Neurodivergence and disabilities cause suffering only because we have so little understanding or support. Treating it as something "broken" or "wrong" only enforces that, please just help people instead.

When I published this story after the first of now 4 incidents of Trump using the US military to kill boatloads of people, I didn't want to use video of the attack for the image, stills from a snuff film. Instead, I went with a Coast Guard interdiction from summer, what this normally looks like.

Hang on…

The Albanese Labor Govt is saying that elderly Australians have to pay more for basic at home care - as spending needs to be reigned in.

But - they give over $200b of our public money to the US & UK for submarines we’ll never see.

What a betrayal #auspol

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture.

His posture.

what can i say? i’m good at what i do

Here are the five stages that may lead to racism There is no genetic or biological basis for dividing the human race into distinct “races”

Psychologically healthy people rarely show racism.
They don’t need to boost their identity by demeaning others.

Dr Steve Taylor writes. From #TheConversation -- thanks!

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

David Pope in Canberra Times

Queen

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth Escaping the religious ‘cult’ tied to big business | Four Corners Documentary

ICYMI, our entire #4Corners, Big Brethren, is here. Posting YouTube so international viewers can watch. Thank you to all of the incredibly brave people who spoke to us. m.youtube.com/watch?v=lFEI...

All bark and no bite - most of the time 🤔

Been there, done that. Ours had a sore leg after being attacked by one of our geese. She stayed inside in the pop-up puppy enclosure for a week until she could stand on it - and every night had a bath run for her. They seem to really enjoy it. Now drying a wet duck - that's another matter altogether

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Incredible this is not cause for instant dismissal. Even more incredible is that it is likely to be cause for promotion, somewhere within the Trump Administration.
Yet another marker in the collapse of the United States and the entrenching of the MAGA malignancy.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Have written my Sunday column for The New Daily on something that is probably ill-advised, but I am sick and tired of pretending that we should tolerate the intolerant.
I already know what my inbox and DMs will look like following it, so if I am slow to get back to you, please forgive me

The international rule of law is dead, and life is about to get very nasty indeed An alarming number of recent examples prove the international rule of law is dead. What was once an unprecedented act is now an almost daily occurrence.

Opinion | Anyone with the faintest affiliation to the rule of law has to be aware that it is receding faster than democracy, writes Michael Bradley.